With this exhibition, Siron Franco, painter, draughtsman, engraver and sculptor, wants to celebrate life and physical contact, limited by social distancing.
An unusual exhibition of 365 suspended mannequins has been opened in Sao Paulo as a tribute to the more than 600,000 deaths from covid-19 in Brazil and to health professionals who have been fighting the pandemic for more than a year.
The montage, entitled Renaissance and the work of Siron Franco, has been installed since this weekend in the “Casa das Rosas”, one of the main cultural centers of Sao Paulo, on the emblematic Paulista avenue.
With this exhibition, Siron Franco, painter, draftsman, engraver and sculptor, wants to celebrate life and physical contact, limited by the social distancing imposed by a pandemic that in Brazil has already generated more than 23 million confirmed cases and 621,000 deaths.
The mannequins, of different sizes and dressed in various outfits, are suspended from steel cables six meters above the ground in the garden of the “Casa das Rosas”.
“Those who left, represented by the mannequins, cry out for the integration of peoples, for the understanding that we must love our species and for the defense of equality and the inalienable rights of all”, maintains the plastic artist responsible for the exhibition.
Siron Franco, 74, has lived in Sao Paulo since 1969 and has presented works in the most important museums in the country and in other countries, such as the Metropolitan Museum in New York. (I)
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